Install a CA certificate in ColdFusion
Solve the problem that the certificate used by the connected web server, mail server, or LDAP server (OpenLDAP, Active Directory, etc.) in ColdFusion cannot communicate with the certificate issued by the private CA or the self-signed certificate. The way.
- This article assumes that ColdFusion 2018 is installed with the default settings. I think you can use it in ColdFusion 2016 by replacing the path.
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ColdFusion runs on the JVM, so you can still use the Java method of importing certificates into the cacerts keystore using the keytool command. The included Java runtime (JRE) also includes keytool.
--JRE is located in C: \ ColdFusion2018 \ jre.
--cacerts The default keystore password is changeit.
Basically, if you know this much, you can get various things by google, but I tried to summarize the method in the Windows environment that I often use.
procedure
1. Prepare the certificate
Prepare the certificate file to import.
--If the server itself uses a self-signed certificate, its certificate file --If the server uses a certificate issued by a private CA, the CA's certificate file (not the server's certificate)
It seems that the file format can be any of DER (binary format), PEM (BASE64 format), P7B (PKCS # 7 format), but prepare in the commonly used PEM format.
: notebook: The file name is ʻexample-ca.cer`.
2. Batch
Since it takes time and effort to do it every time when operating or testing, make it a Windows batch.
Create a register-cert.bat file by copying and pasting the following contents in the same location as the folder where you saved example-ca.cer.
register-cert.bat
@echo off
setlocal
set JRE_HOME=C:\ColdFusion2018\jre
set CERT_FILE=%~dp0example-ca.cer
set CERT_ALIAS=example-ca
echo %CERT_FILE%Alias%CERT_ALIAS%Registering as...
"%JRE_HOME%\bin\keytool.exe" -importcert -alias "%CERT_ALIAS%" -file "%CERT_FILE%" -keystore "%JRE_HOME%\lib\security\cacerts" -storepass changeit -noprompt
echo.
pause
Also prepare a batch file for deletion when you no longer need it.
remove-cert.bat
@echo off
setlocal
set JRE_HOME=C:\ColdFusion2018\jre
set CERT_ALIAS=example-ca
echo alias%CERT_ALIAS%Is being deleted...
"%JRE_HOME%\bin\keytool.exe" -delete -alias "%CERT_ALIAS%" -keystore "%JRE_HOME%\lib\security\cacerts" -storepass changeit -noprompt
echo.
pause
: notebook: The example-ca.cer part of CERT_FILE is the file name, so change it accordingly.
: notebook: The specification of CERT_ALIAS is registered as the alias name of the certificate. Use this name when deleting.
3. Folder contents
It's OK if it looks like this.
4. Register
Double-click register-cert.bat to run it.
Execution result:
C:\cert-test\example-ca.Also known as cer example-Registering as ca...
warning:To access the cacerts keystore-Use the cacerts option
Certificate added to keystore
Press any key to continue. . .
If the message "Certificate has been added to the keystore" is displayed, registration is successful.
By the way, if it is already registered, it will fail as follows.
C:\cert-test\example-ca.Registering cer...
warning:To access the cacerts keystore-Use the cacerts option
keytool error: java.lang.Exception:The certificate was not imported. alias<example-ca>Already exists
Press any key to continue. . .
5. Delete
Double-click remove-cert.bat to run it.
Execution result:
Also known as example-Deleting ca...
warning:To access the cacerts keystore-Use the cacerts option
Press any key to continue. . .
There seems to be no success message. If it is not registered, it will fail as follows.
Also known as example-Deleting ca...
warning:To access the cacerts keystore-Use the cacerts option
keytool error: java.lang.Exception:alias<example-ca>Does not exist
Press any key to continue. . .
Supplement
It seems that there are two patterns of JVM, "Java 8 based" and "Java 11 based", depending on the installation time of ColdFusion 2018.
In this environment, in Java 11, there is a warning to use the -cacerts option with keytool, but I was able to add / remove it.
It seems that the -cacerts option is exclusive with -keystore and you don't have to specify the path to the cacerts file. However, Java 8 does not have this option, so if you want to use the batch in multiple environments, it is better to specify the path in the keystore as described at present.
How to avoid warnings in Java 11
All I had to do was replace the -keystore"% JRE_HOME% \ lib \ security \ cacerts " part of each batch file with -cacerts.
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